Albert Marquet

Acquired by the family of the present owner circa 1935

The canvas is not lined. There are some retouched holes all along the upper edge, two spots of retouching to the lower right, an area of retouching to the centre of the lower edge, three spots of retouching below the date and four spots of retouching to the lower left corner. There is also a 4cm. area that fluoresces under UV light at the centre, just under the bridge. This work is in overall good condition.
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Marquet stayed in Conflans, a village in the Yvelines region, west of Paris, in 1911. Conflans is situated at the confluence of the Oise and the Seine rivers, allowing the artist to paint numerous views of their banks and bridges. In his description of Marquet's fascination with ports, François Daulte noted that the artist had "an incomparable instinct...to reduce a landscape to its essential factors, separating the horizontal lines from the vertical. These lines he used to depict perspective, and to convey dimension. He always considered that the representation of space remained the principal element in the composition of a painting" (Marquet (exhibition catalogue), Knoedler Gallery, New York, 1964, pp. 4-5).